Silchar, Feb 13 : The body of a trader in Bhanga township, on the Indo-Bangla border, in Karimganj district, who abducted from near his shop, was recovered last night by police from a pond in Moirangadi village near Patherkandi town in the district.
Sources said Sambhu Das, 45, was abducted from Bhanga on February 5.
Sources said Das was bludgeoned at first and then stabbed to death. The recovery of the body led to tension at Bhanga, around 18km from the district headquarters town of Karimganj.
The additional superintendent of police, Karimganj, Hemanta Das, said the police had taken all the precautionary measures, including the deployment of the additional troops in Bhanga, to pre-empt trouble.
Das was a very popular figure in Bhanga and the Bhanga Bazar Committee had formed an all-community cell to demand the arrest and punishment for the killers.
Das was a very popular figure in Bhanga and the Bhanga Bazar Committee had formed an all-community cell to demand the arrest and punishment for the killers.
A police source said a few criminals in Bhanga area, who had links with the Isak-Muivah faction of the National Socialist Council of Nagalim, and who had recently deserted their base in Dimapur town, might be involved in the murder. An alert has been sounded to track them down.
A resident of Bhanga said Das’s family had raised an amount of Rs 3 lakh to hand it over to the abductors, but was killed before the cash could be handed over.
Bhanga has of late turned into a den of criminals, who have become experts in kidnapping and killing. At least two persons, identified as Ranjit Das and Rehanuddin, were abducted in recent times from Bhanga.
A source said Das’s body, under police escort, had reached his village of Duttapur in Bhanga this afternoon after post-mortem in Karimganj district hospital.
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